Mary Robinson backs call by environmental campaign for oil and gas companies to help pay for climate breakdown
Mary Robinson has backed a campaign demanding that 'fossil fuel companies pay up for their role in causing climate breakdown'. Photograph Nick Bradshaw for The Irish Timesclimate talks opened in Baku on Monday with heightened controversy over the host country’s plans to scale up fossil fuels, while signatory countries to the Paris Agreement are attempting to get stronger commitments to reduce carbon emissions, which mainly arise from oil, gas and coal.
“The climate crisis gets worse each year, and it seems as if each year we have another fossil fuel company using climate talks to secure pursue ever more oil and gas deals,” said Patrick Galey, senior fossil fuels investigator at Global Witness. Profits that fossil fuel companies make eclipse what is needed to pay for the damage caused by extreme weather events linked to climate change, Global Witness said. In 2022 the oil and gas industry made $
“Like Biden, Putin and Xi Jingping, Simon Harris will not be attending Cop this year. While Fine Gael do not have time for climate, they do have time for campaign launches with major fossil fuel emitting companies like Ryanair’s Michael O’Leary,” he said.
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